Wave Goodbye to Dubie

Today's Newsday reports that the Isles made an offer to goalie Wade Dubielewicz but that he rejected the offer and will test the free agency waters. Dubie, who has always been a fan favorite, is always going to be remembered as the guy who poke-checked the puck off of Sergei Brylin's stick in the shootout two seasons ago that put the Isles in the playoffs.

Joey MacDonald who has a one-way contract for the upcoming season, is probably going to be Rick DiPietro's backup in net for the Isles in 2008-09.

Newsday also reports that Islanders GM Garth Snow has made no offers to Miroslav Satan, Ruslan Fedotenko and Josef Vasicek. The Tank and Vasicek were essentially on one-year trials with the team so we can't really say that is a surprise. Satan had not ever lived up to the contract he had--remember, he was brought in to mesh with Yashin and we all know how that worked out--and he will be entertaining offers on July 1.

What this really signifies is that the team is going the Flayers route with a youth movement to get the young guys some experience at the NHL level with vets like Bill Guerin and Mike Comrie and Mike Sillinger there to guide them through the season. Not sure what I think of this yet...but at least it is nice to say that they actually have a plan this time.